Haight-Ashbury

American  

[heyt-ash-ber-ee, -buh-ree] / ˈheɪtˈæʃ bɛr i, -bə ri /

noun

1. a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.

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Example Sentences

O’Neill also explains that psychiatrist Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West, who is known to have ties to the MKUltra project, was conducting research on brainwashing in the Haight-Ashbury area at that time.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

The free-form rock station KSAN, the voice of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, threw him off the air for interviewing workers who had been fired by one of the station’s sponsors.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

He spoke by phone from San Francisco, where he’s lived in the Haight-Ashbury since age 11.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Glover never left his roots — literally; he still lives 12 blocks from the house where he grew up in Haight-Ashbury.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2022

She sat down on a bench outside Haight-Ashbury Fitness.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart